About Glass Cathedrals
“Lisa’s art is able to capture the unseen, the unspoken, and the shared human experience.” – Hannah K., Mixx Telluride
I’ve always been inspired by how small things can capture big feelings and ideas. Glass Cathedrals remind us that we are all the heroes of our own stories, and that finding inspiration in the small stuff is a superpower we can turn on in the blink of an eye.
The’ve been a unique platform for my flow of ideas. Some are based on thoughts I’ve been having since I was a child – thoughts that are no less mysterious and intriguing to me today. “Why is glitter more precious to me than gold? Why do I plunge into the cold water when my body is yelling ‘NO!’? How do I savour my precious life while raging against its impermanence?”
Many people have these moments of inspiration about what it is to be a funny little human traveling around a big planet.
What to do with these thoughts? I started putting mine in boxes! The boxes reflect back much that is good about our own world – a powerful magic.
Glass Cathedrals are shown all over the world – from international art fairs to more unconventional spots like the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco and annually during the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. Glass Cathedrals are also part of Small is Beautiful (Paris, London, NYC, Milan) – the world’s biggest exhibition of miniature art.
But what means the most to me, and motivates me every day, is making art inspired by what is
most precious to other people. Over the years I’ve made thousands of Glass Cathedrals that
capture people, events, places, memories, dreams – distilling memories to fit – in a box!
Glass Cathedrals have been described as “windows into the human condition” – and as the poet
Pat Schneider wrote in the last line of her poem “The Patience of Ordinary Things”…
“… what is more generous than a window?”